The Public Spectacle - Urban Design Seminar
Friday, Sep 5, 201411:12 PM — Friday, Sep 12, 201411:12 PMEDT
| San Francisco, CA
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Individuals interested in design, urban planning, or architecture may apply until September 3, 2014. swissnex San Francisco, ETH Zurich’s Urban Think Tank, and UC Berkeley’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning department are offering a week-long urban design seminar with an emphasis on the parklet approach in San Francisco. This is a rare opportunity to participate in daily morning and afternoon workshops and discussions on urban design at UC Berkeley, Gray Area, and envelope A+D. Also attend city tours and site visits at cutting edge studios including MIN | DAY, CMG Landscape Architecture, and more. And hear evening lectures (also open to the public) from top thinkers such as John Bela of Gehl Architects, Alfredo Brillembourg of Urban Think Tank, and Nicholas Polansky of MIT Architecture and the Future Cites Lab. Participants will develop and try out design ideas that have the potential to transform and activate public spaces, even building modular objects to be included in the final design of the forthcoming swissnex San Francisco parklet. Learn more about the seminar. - See more at: http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/event/urbandesign/#sthash.OiUMTwuO.dpuf Free Public Talks September 8 – 11th, all talks at 7pm. Monday, September 8th: Liz Ogbu and Kevin Conger UC Berkeley campus, Wurster Hall, room 112 Tuesday, September 9th: Margaret Crawford UC Berkeley campus, Wurster Hall, room 112 Wednesday, September 10th: Nicholas Polansky swissnex San Francisco, 730 Montgomery St., San Francisco Thursday, September 11th: Future Cities Lab swissnex San Francisco, 730 Montgomery St., San Francisco Friday, September 12th: Alfredo Brillembourg, John Bela, and Kristina Hill swissnex San Francisco, 730 Montgomery St., San Francisco Seminar Leader Bios Alfredo Brillembourg Alfredo Brillembourg was born in New York in 1961. He received his Bachelor of Art and Architecture in 1984 and his Master of Science in Architectural Design in 1986 from Columbia University. In 1992, he received a second architecture degree from the Central University of Venezuela and began his independent practice in architecture. In 1993 he founded Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) in Caracas, Venezuela. Starting in 2007, Brillembourg has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, where he co-founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (S.L.U.M. Lab) with Hubert Klumpner. He has over 20 years of experience practicing architecture and urban design. Since May 2010, Brillembourg has held the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH) Zürich in Switzerland. Kristina Hill Kristina Hill is an Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and is currently focused on developing proposals for urban adaptation to climate change in the San Francisco Bay area, by learning from international examples. She co-edited and authored the book Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning (Island Press, 2002), and has published numerous book chapters and articles in scientific and professional journals. Hill lectures internationally on ecology and design, and is currently working on a book about urban adaptation to sea level rise and flooding for Springer Publishers. She has been recognized as a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design, and as a Fulbright Scholar. Her research and consulting work has been funded by the US National Science Foundation and clients in the US and abroad. Her most recent professional project was the Water Management Strategy for Greater New Orleans, where she advised a team of designers and engineers on water-based site and system design. She received a Master of Landscape Architecture with distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and a Doctor of Philosophy in landscape architecture, with a minor in ecology, from Harvard University.
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